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Jurong Football Club was a professional football club, based in Jurong, Singapore. The club played in S.League, the top division of football in Singapore from 1997 to 2003. The team's best league finishes in this period were fifth place in both 1998 and 2001.
The club was founded as Jurong Town Football Club in 1975, and prior to 1997 revamp, they were known as Jurong Football Club. The team won Singapore's President's Cup (now known as the Singapore Cup) in 1988 and 1989, and were runners-up in 1999 and 2002.
In 1975, the club organised the Jurong League for the men and Jurong Netball League for the ladies. These two competitions attracted a large number of workers in the Jurong area, after their working hours they used to play in these competitions before going home. Then, the club was given the Division One status. It was coached by the well known footballer of the 1960s, the late Rahim Omar. He coached the club for two years, after which it was relegated to Division Two till 1987.
In 1988, the FAS re-organised the domestic competition, Jurong Town was once again selected to be in the Premier League. In that year, Jurong Town was sponsored by Japan Airlines, the first company to come into a domestic competition with $100,000 sponsorship. This sponsorship helped the club to engage players like V. Sundramoorthy, Jeffrey Lazaroo, A.R.J. Mani, K Kannan, D. Tokijan and Lim Chiew Peng. Two youngsters Nazri Nasir and Lim Tong Hai who joined the club at the age of 16. Jurong Town gave both these young players $3000 scholarship. Jurong Town also signed Brazilian, Manalton Santos. Jurong Town won the President's Cup in that year and D. Tokijan was awarded the top scorer for the year. Jurong Town also signed David Lee at the end of the 1988 season.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, their kits are sponsored by Hummel.
Sundram did not start the season because he had a good offer from Switzerland. He had this golden opportunity and Jurong Town do not want to be an obstacle in his career even with one-year contract with Jurong Town, the club happily released him to pursue a better future.
In 1989, David Lee and Au Yeong Pak Kuan joined Jurong Town and the team won the President's Cup, Singapore Pool's Cup and finished runners-up in the Premier League. Jurong Town had two Danish and one Finnish player in the squad.
In 1990, the club gave another opportunity to two youngsters, they are Tamil Maran and Shari Ismail, who are now back with Jurong Town. The club also signed two Australian, Tommy Marras and Peter Murphy. And the team finished second in the Premier League with goal difference to Geylang United.
In 1991, Jurong Town was relegated to Second Division.
In 1992, Jurong Town played well and was promoted to Premier League again. During this year another player was unearthed, he was Nahar Daud, now playing for Tiong Bahru United. Jurong Town finished runners-up in the second division and qualify thru the play-off into the Premier League.
In 1993, the club was not doing so well even after signed a Danish coach and three Danish players. But Jurong Town escaped the relegation.
In 1994, this time no chance, even with players from Slovakia, the club was relegated to Division One.
In 1995, the club was relegated to Division Two.
In 1996, after doing so badly in the past three years, K Suppiah the club manager wanted to help Jurong Town to come back. He engaged Mr Jimmy Pearson to be the coach and M.Somasamy team manager for 1996 team and with two signings from Ghana and one from Nigeria. It worked as Jurong Town were the group Champion in its group and earned a place in the S.League 1997.
In 1999, Jurong FC star player, V Sundramoorthy, was appointed the coach of Jurong FC. He became the first ever player-coach in the S.League history. Jurong finished in sixth position in the 12-team league. That year also saw Jurong FC coming closest to a trophy since their entry into the S.League, as they reached the final of the Singapore Cup. The club's captain, Jason Ainsley, was the top scorer for Jurong FC with 19 goals; he was the third top scorer overall for that season. Jurong FC's main sponsor WSA Lines then ended their sponsorship as well. Dalis Supait was recalled back to the national team after a superb performance that season.
Jurong FC topscorer Joseph M Pragasam was the first Jurong FC player to represent Singapore National Team ever since they turned professional. Jurong Reptile Park ended their sponsorship mid-season, leading to grave financial problems for the club. The New Paper planned and conducted several fund-raising events which brought the club S$500,000. As Jurong Reptile Park were no longer sponsors of Jurong FC, the clubhouse was relocated to Jurong East Stadium that year. Jurong FC was nominated to represent Singapore to participate in the India Shield Tournament in Calcutta in that year.
As the club undergo a full revamp for the new era in their history and also their participation in the newly created S.League, Jurong FC planned to move to a new stadium that serve only as a football stadium but the result of the construction of the new Jurong East Stadium is still incomplete so Jurong FC used Bukit Gombak Stadium as their home ground for the entire of the 1997 S.League season.
Jurong FC left Bukit Gombak Stadium upon completion of their new home ground Jurong East Stadium in 1998. Its one of only three stadiums in Singapore that does not have a running track.
Jurong FC also asked its fans to select a new mascot and nickname to associate the club with its new sponsor and was given a four choices; Python, Crocodile, Cobra or Iguana and the winning mascot was a Cobra.
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| 1980–1990 | Hummel | Japan Airlines | |
| 1997 | Mikasa Sports | WSA Lines | |
| 2000 | Maxell |
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| Jimmy Pearson | 1996 - 1998 | ||
| Ramasamy Krishnan (Roy) | 1998 (Interim) | ||
| V Sundramoorthy | 1999 - 2003 | 1999 & 2002 Singapore Cup runner-ups | |
| 1997 | 7th | 15 | Preliminary |
| 1998 | 5th | 31 | Preliminary |
| 1999 | 6th | 31 | Runners-up |
| 2000 | 6th | 29 | Preliminary |
| 2001 | 5th | 51 | Preliminary |
| 2002 | 7th | 45 | Runners-up |
| 2003 | 6th | 51 | Third place |
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